"George L. Ellis served as county judge in 1868-1869. Ellis Memo. states birth as October 15, 1819. Served in Company C, 15th Regiment Texas Calvary, Confederate States Army. Member of the Cedar Grove Masonic Lodge No. 308 from 1867-1874 when he became a charter member of the Wills Point Lodge No. 422. Gave land for the Ellis Chapel Cemetery. On this tract was also located the Ellis Chapel School and a Methodist Church.
More About GEORGE LUNSFORD ELLIS: Burial: Ellis Chapel Cemetery; Van Zandt Co., Texas( Census: 1850, Upshur County, Texas) Member: 1856, William Tell Lodge No. 27 and St. John's Lodge; Tyler, Texas ( 3rd degree Mason) Military service: Co. H, 17th TX Consolidated Div. Cav. Obituary: June 13, 1923, Wills Point Chronicle, Wills Point, Texas Occupation: Judge Property: Original Land Owner of Texas for Upshur County; Abstract 156 Religion: 1848, Charter Member of Methodist Episcopal Church South at Tyler, Texas"
FRANCES CATHERINE KENNEDY: Buried beside George Lunsford Ellis at Ellis Chapel Cemetery in Van Zandt County, Texas Frances Catherine had two sons by her previous marriage. No issue with George Lunsford Sr. Sources: Birth date & date of decease from monument. Older family members who know Frances C. state she had two sons by previous marriage. More About FRANCES CATHERINE KENNEDY: Census: 1880, Wills Point, Precinct 3, Van Zandt Co., Texas
Ms Kennedy was the 4th wife of George Lunsford and his last wife. His first wife was Mary Greer. My great-great grandmother was his second wife, Mary Caroline, and is buried somewhere in Tyler ( probably Oakwood Cemetery) we believe. Nancy Jane McBride was his third wife and we believe she was buried at the cemetery at Tawonkoni on the land that George Lunsford owned and passed down to our descendants until the State bought it. I am told that the cemetery had all the graves removed for the Lake and reinterred at Bright Star Cemetery in a mass grave. I do not know this to be true and am only told this by word of mouth. He had 3 children by each of the first 3 wives and none by Francis C. Kennedy, however she had two sons by a previous marriage so we understand.
Betty Pickens Phillips